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Liveblog: HP business leaders take the stage at GPC

LAS VEGAS — After Meg Whitman and COO Bill Veghte held court yesterday, Wednesday morning, it’s the turn of the company’s business leaders to take their message to HP channel partners at the company’s Global Partner Conference here.

Slated to appear are Dave Donatelli, Enterprise Group chief (pictured); Todd Bradley, Printing and Personal Systems chief; and George Kadifa, head of HP Software.

And fourth, the ElitePad, HP’s effort to “make a tablet that’s better than the other guys.” Wolff is talking up the ability to partners to service the device, as well as the Smart Jackets that add new functionality to the tablets, ranging from extra battery life an ports, to a keyboard case.

Now shifting to talking about mobile print and the nature of that opportunity — everything from consumer printers to high-end graphics printers are connected to the Internet, and users can print to them by e-mail from mobile devices.

Now it’s time to turn things over to the Enterprise Group. Dave Donatelli is out to talk about the innovation strategy in his group.

“What does the channel mean to the Enterprise Group?” Donatelli asks. “Our channel is our crown jewel. It’s what built the company. It’s what made us the largest diversified IT company in the world. And it’s our goal to grow it.”

Last year, two thirds of EG revenue went through channels. About that rate in industry standard servers and storage. while networking (96 per cent) is almost all channel, and Technology Services (29 per cent) still has work to do.

Talking up the PrioLiant SL 4500 server, which he says is the first server purpose-built for Big Data.

“It gives you a great ratio between storage and server, and it does this at a price that hasn’t been possible before.”

A quick run through the history of servers, from mainframes through to blades, and now onto ARM and Atom with Moonshot.

Dontelli holding up a four-server board, which will be the company’s scaleout server. He says it can put ten racks worth of servers into one, at half the cost, with 89 per cent less energy. “This is generation one, and very shortly, we’ll have generation two.”

Robert Dutt

Robert Dutt is the founder and head blogger at ChannelBuzz.ca. He has been covering the Canadian solution provider channel community for a variety of publications and Web sites since 1997. View all posts by Robert Dutt →